Canada

25/09/20
Author: 
CFNU, OCHU/CUPE and Green Jobs Oshawa
Joint Statement on Domestic Production of N95 Respirators

September 25, 2020

25/09/20
Author: 
E. McIntosh
Green Party leadership candidate Meryam Haddad, a Montreal immigration lawyer, has been allowed to return to the race to succeed Elizabeth May. Handout photo

September 24th 2020

The Green Party of Canada reinstated leadership candidate Meryam Haddad on Thursday, two days after it kicked her out of the race for publicly criticizing the B.C. Greens.

The party declined to divulge details on why it originally expelled Haddad, a Montreal immigration lawyer who is running as a socialist, and why it accepted her appeal of the 11th-hour decision. Mail-in voting in the race to become the next leader of the federal Greens has already begun, and online voting will start Sept. 26.

25/09/20
Author: 
Keith Fraser
Construction continues on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at the West Ridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby on July 2. PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG

Sep 21, 2020

B.C.'s top court rejects appeals of two protesters who were arrested after blockading Kinder Morgan's pipeline.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has rejected the appeals of two people who were arrested and convicted of criminal contempt of court for blocking Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

25/09/20
Author: 
Alastair Sharp
Cooper Price, an organizer with Fridays for Future Toronto and Climate Strike Canada. Photo by Ella Young

September 25th 2020

Student climate strikers will walk out of school or log off online classes across Canada on Friday hoping to pressure the Trudeau government to live up to its vague green promises.

25/09/20
Author: 
E. McIntosh
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is currently scheduled to be finished at the end of 2022. Photo from Trans Mountain/Twitter

September 25th 2020

Last week, Trans Mountain said its pipeline expansion project is on schedule to be done by the end of 2022.

But the environmental non-profit Wilderness Committee says it appears Trans Mountain has missed its window to start key construction work in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, meaning the project is at risk of at least a two-month delay. And that’s if everything else goes perfectly ⁠— if not, it could be up to 14 months late.

24/09/20
Author: 
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24/09/20
Author: 
CTVNewsVancouver.ca Staff
Protesters from the group Extinction Rebellion block the railway tracks in East Vancouver on Sept. 21, 2020.

September 21, 2020

VANCOUVER -- About two dozen climate activists have blocked a railway line in East Vancouver, while demanding an end to the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The protest was organized by Extinction Rebellion, the same group that shut down the Burrard Street Bridge last year and previously set up rail blockades in support of pipeline opponents from the Wet'suwet'en First Nation.

22/09/20
Author: 
David Coletto - Abacus Data

[Editor: The Broadbent Institute commissioned Abacus Data to conduct a national public opinion survey to explore the kind of recovery agenda Canadians 

want the federal government to set in response to the pandemic.

19/09/20
Author: 
Horizons

Convincing more people about the need for this, the need to mobilize for it (beyond petitions and other "pressuring" tactics), and the need for all of us to take an active part in ensuring democratic planning will more or less be the determinant of whether there is a future.

                -- Gene McGuckin

19/09/20
Author: 
Derrick O'Keefe
COVID sucks, unless you’re a billionaire. - Google Streetview image of Chip Wilson's 16,000 sq-ft mansion in Vancouver.

Sept. 17, 2020

Canada’s 20 richest people have seen their fortunes skyrocket as the rest of us suffer

The top 20 richest billionaires in Canada have amassed $37 billion in collective wealth increases since March, when COVID-related lockdowns and closures began across Canada, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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